if congress and the white house can't agree on the deficit or the debt ceiling. will washington work is the theme of the seminar in davos today. house majority leader eric cantor who's here will have to answer. that's the question on a lot of people's minds. why can't the u.s. get its act together? >> well, i think the thing that diff different yates us is we know what to do. >> reporter: the head of the international monetary fund christine lagarde says the u.s. has to confront this. if those decisions are postponed again -- >> well, it will be pushing the can down the road yet again, which was an approach we made against the europeans, and i don't think the u.s. should fall in that trap. >> reporter: and with the u.s. economy now showing renewed strength, the feeling here is that the u.s. could help pull up the rest of the world if washington could just get out of the way. charlie, norah? >> anthony mason, thank you. in the international press institute reports that 132 journalists were killed around the world last year. and reporting on the war in syria is esp